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...most hated by those who have to eat his Ersatz foods. From sawdust Bergius has extracted a digestible sugar, equal in food value to barley. Of the sawdust 60% to 65% becomes sugar, 5% acetic acid, 30% lignin which can again be used to make charcoal or wallboard. The sugar can be converted into protein by treatment with yeast; into fat by feeding it to pigs. Apparently, up to the outbreak of World War II, food-from-sawdust in Germany was fed only to animals...
Peat is compressed, decayed vegetation found in bogs. Processed peat is used as fuel, fertilizer, insulator, wallboard material, wrapping paper, cloth base. Exide Batteries of Canada, Ltd. uses a type of peat for a secret paint which binds rubber to metal. Domestic Scotch whiskey distillers get their vaunted "Highland peat" flavor by charring raw peat inside their kegs. But though the U.S. has 11,200 square miles of peat bogs (only Russia, Canada...
...have been waiting a long time for a logical explanation of Surrealism's right to exist; not its existence, mind, but its right to exist. Any kid can sling a ripe tomato, three rotten eggs and a jackknife at a square of wallboard and get a bang-up Surrealistic effect. But is that...
...show's material was not restricted to this specification. Said NBC's publicity department: "Deems Taylor is the absolute dictator. . . . He balks at nothing. ... He and his musicians and radio actors have interpreted . . . the photograph of a bowl of goldfish . . . four bananas dancing on a piece of wallboard...
Certainteed is the third largest U. S. manufacturer and distributor of gypsum products, chief of which are ordinary wall plaster and wallboard. Its name was derived in 1917 from a trade-mark for the asphalt roofing which was its original product and is still its mainstay. Its weakness was a result of boomtime expansion which culminated in the purchase of Beaver Products, makers of Beaver Board and "Bestwall," original gypsum wallboard, in 1928. To acquire Beaver Products the company had to issue $13,500,000 in bonds, thus simultaneously gearing up productive capacity and enormously in creasing its burden...